steirischerherbst’18
20.9.–14.10.18

Vorherbst Magazine

frohesfest

Season greetings, or: Volksfronten’s critical inquiry of (hyber-)nation
Vorherbst Magazine takes a winter break and will be back with fresh ideas and plenty of stimula for future debates in spring 2019.

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Our Little Fascisms #11

Tiago Saraiva and Oxana Timofeeva in conversation with David Riff

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Our Little Fascisms #10

Oxana Timofeeva in conversation with David Riff

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Our Little Fascisms #9

Tiago Saraiva in conversation with David Riff

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Our Little Fascisms #8

Ewa Majewska and Renata Salecl in conversation with Ekaterina Degot

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Our Little Fascisms #7

Renata Salecl in conversation with Ekaterina Degot

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Our Little Fascisms #6

Tobias Ginsburg and Lars Cuzner in conversation with Dominik Müller

Andreas-Hofer-Platz, Graz, 1967. Photo: Karl Hierzer. © Multimediale Sammlungen / UMJ

16.11.18/Postcards from Graz

Andreas-Hofer-Platz

What assails the eye is the total lack of commerce

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Our Little Fascisms #5

Ishay Landa and Nikola Vukobratović in conversation with David Riff

13.11.18/Postcards from Graz

Hotel Daniel

The promise of affordable seaside vacations, with a beautiful view of the beach for everyone

Volkshaus, Graz, 1950s. © Courtesy KPÖ Steiermark

9.11.18/Postcards from Graz

Volkshaus

A city within a city, a world unto itself

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Our Little Fascisms #4

Ishay Landa in conversation with David Riff

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Our Little Fascisms #3

Nikola Vukobratović in conversation with David Riff

Triestersiedlung, Graz, 9.5.1954. © Stadtarchiv Graz

6.11.18/Postcards from Graz

Triestersiedlung

Here, on the periphery of the city, the first workers’ settlements sprung up

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Our Little Fascisms #2

Ewa Majewska in conversation with Ekaterina Degot

Michael Shanks

Archaeological imagination

Lecture by Michael Shanks in the frame of Milica Tomić's Exhibiting on a Trowel’s Edge. Research and investigative processes of Aflenz Memorial in becoming (2018)

Mariengasse with a view to Hotel International, Graz, no year © Steiermärkisches Landesarchiv, Graz

2.11.18/Postcards from Graz

Former Hotel International

One could imagine a red flag flying from its tower

Orpheum, Graz, 1915. Unknown photographer. © Postkartensammlung GrazMuseum Online

30.10.18/Postcards from Graz

Orpheum

Everything from magic shows to cabaret, operettas, acrobats, jugglers, and exotic dancers

Kasematten, set design for Andreas Baumkircher by Erika Spann-Rheinisch, Schloßberg, Graz, 1952. Photo: Franz Hubmann. © ÖNB / Hubmann

26.10.18/Postcards from Graz

Kasematten

“Strictly speaking the French were besieging a giant prison, not a fortress”

Our Little Fascisms

Our Little Fascisms #1: Ernst Bloch and Hanns Eisler

Avant-garde Art and the Popular Front (1937)

Schloßbergstiege, Graz, ca. 1918–1925

23.10.18/Postcards from Graz

Schlossbergstiege

A staircase zigzags up to the ruins of the mountain-top fortress

Nicoline van Harskamp

Nicoline van Harskamp in conversation with Dieter Halwachs

Translation and creolization of names and much, much more…

Hauptplatz 16–17, Graz, 1938. © ÖNB

20.10.18/Postcards from Graz

Hauptplatz

Undisciplined, domestic, pulsing with everyday life

Keplerstraße, Graz, 1935.

17.10.18/Postcards from Graz

Keplerstrasse

Hitler’s pathway to the hearts of the Austrian people

Mariensäule, Am Eisernen Tor, Graz, before 1930

10.10.18/Postcards from Graz

Am Eisernen Tor

There is something incongruous about the triangular city plaza.

steirischer herbst

Ein Amalgam aus Politischem und Poetischem

Kurzinterviews zu Nâzım Hikmets Menschenlandschaften

kozek hörlonski & Alexander Martinz

1.10.18/Video (in German)

herbst portrait #2: kozek hörlonski & Alexander Martinz

The artists on the horrors of the homeland, uncanny folklore and their ongoing project Demonic Screens.

Nazim Hikmet

Was es heisst, Mensch zu sein

Michiel Vandevelde über seine Performance Human Landscapes - Book I.

Lars Cuzner

“Women Are Stupid”

Eternal Leader Cuzner is in Graz today and announces his candidacy for the EU parliament in a breathtaking video.

Opening of steirischer herbst’18, Europaplatz Graz, photo: Jasper Kettner

steirischer herbst’18 opening at Europaplatz today

An excerpt of Ekaterina Degot’s introductory speech—given in the midst of a space of transition.

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Ishay Landa:
Excerpt from The Apprentice’s Sorcerer (2013)

The historian on how fascism was always an intimate insider to the liberal order, and never just its opponent.

Laibach

“Flirting with the obscene dimension of fascism”

… is how Slavoj Žižek put it. Take a sneak peek into Laibach’s Sound of Music, the musical performance opening steirischer herbst’18.

Nicoline van Harskamp

18.9.18/Video (in German)

My Name is Language (2018)

Nicoline van Harskamp shares some research material as a glimpse into her new performance for steirischer herbst’18.

Theater im Bahnhof

17.9.18/Video (in German)

herbst portrait #9: Theater im Bahnhof

The theater group dared an experimental taxi ride as research for their contribution to steirischer herbst’18.

Lomasko

Victoria Lomasko

The Moscow-based artist on the crossroads of Soviet and Russian Orthodox aesthetics, where she finds the voiceless Russian people.

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Tiago Saraiva:
Excerpt from Fascist Pigs (2016)

Historian of science Tiago Saraiva on Nazi Minister of Food and Agriculture Richard Walther Darré and his paranoid fascination with the conspiracy to murder German pigs

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“The People” as Strangers in their Own Country

Historian Anton Jäger on community, populism, and compassion fatigue

Henrike Naumann

6.9.18/Video (in German)

HERBST PORTRAIT #8: HENRIKE NAUMANN TOURS STYRIAN FLEA MARKETS

A new store is about to open in Graz. Henrike Naumann on design and what furniture has to do with unification.

Lars Cuzner

Fuck Your Values!

Lars Cuzner, the Eternal Leader of the Intelligence Party, offers a brief glimpse at his upcoming adventures in Graz.

Photo: University of Teheran, 1977. Photographer unknown. Source: OeNB

But do we know what this truth is?

Iran Conference participant, famed conductor Pascual Andersen, shatters some myths surrounding the “Iran issue”.

Roman Osminkin

herbst portrait #5: Roman Osminkin

Making Schloßbergplatz his stage, Roman Osminkin gives Graz’s locals and tourists a taste of his poetic actionism.

Michiel Vandevelde

herbst portrait #1: Michiel Vandevelde on Human Landscapes from My Country

Michiel Vandevelde reflects on what it means to revisit Turkish author Nâzım Hikmet’s epic poem from 1942 today.

Photo: Frans de Wit

G. M. Tamás
On Post-Fascism (2000)

This text appeared over 18 years ago, and seems near-prophetic today, its diagnosis of the politics of citizenship in Europe more relevant than ever.

Yoshinori Niwa

herbst portrait #6: Yoshinori Niwa in Graz for Withdrawing Adolf Hitler from a Private Space

Yoshinori Niwa will be exploring darker corners of Graz closets in an ongoing series of video interviews.

ZIP group

herbst portrait #3: ZIP group on their favorite public artwork in Graz

ZIP group is about to build a political public sculpture in Graz. Which of the existing ones do they like the most?

Irina Korina

17.8.18/Image story

herbst portrait #7: Irina Korina in winterly Graz

Irina Korina’s portrait of Graz, with all its strange forms and uncanny artifacts, while she herself stays in the shadows.

Igor & Ivan Buharov

herbst portrait #4: Igor & Ivan Buharov

In a preview of their new work, Igor and Ivan Buharov navigate between bio-energetics, anarchism and the occult, hypnotizing a couple of plants on their way.

Bread & Puppet Theater

Possibilitarian Platform (2003)

Paradise is possible, says Bread & Puppet Theater in their 2003-manifesto, even in a world under siege by the enemies of nature.